DEATH OF VALUABLE RACE HORSES ON BOARD STEAMER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 402, 23 September 1876, Page 2

DEATH OF VALUABLE RACE HORSES ON BOARD STEAMER.

LOSS of £lO,OOO TO £12,000 in horse FLESH. f. 11 E interest in the next race meeting at Melbourne will be very much spoiled by the untoward fate which our telegrams from Sydney state has befallen no less than six well-known and favorite horses, H were billed on board the City of Melbourne during her passage from Sydney to Melbourne, through the knocking about they received during the unexampled gale of the 11th instant, reported to have been the severest ever known ou the Australian coast. Their names are

-Nemesm, Eros, R obin Hood s lvia colt, Sovereign, Etoile dll M J atill . Nemesis was o y ears old Bha was b Knight of the Garter, out of Murcia, and was owned by Mr J. Evans. She won the Great Metropolitan Stakes .at Rand wick not a week ago, ran third in the Hawkesbury Grand Handicap, and was entered for the Melbourne Cup. In the betting quotations of August 26, she stood 100 to 2, for that event. Eros won the Flying Handicap at Hawkesbury, r 5 J fai ’ s °ld, and was owned by “• D- Little. He was handicapped at 12st. 41b for the Corinthian Cup. being the top weight, bar one. Robin Hood was the winner of the Sydney Leser, beating Richmond, and was valued at about £3,000. The Sylvia colt was brother to Goldsbrough, and of great promise. He is described as “ pulling over the Chrysolite colt all the way ” when exercising with him on the Randwick training ground last month. Sovereign was considered by the -correspondent of the Australasian as the best three-year-old at Randwick. Etoile du Matin, 3 years old, was the property’ of Mr ®.. Yuille., She came in second in the Trial Stakes at Hawkesbury. Besides the above, mentioned, other horses, whose names are not given, Were killed. Their value in all is estimated at from .£’ (1,000 to £12,000. The Chrysolite colt and Ringwood were also on board the City of Melbourne, but were fortunately saved. The former of these won the A.J.C. Derby and was second favorite for the Victorian Derby. The ordeal the colt has undergone will probably greatly affect the state of the prospects of the running. —D. S. Cross.